Nominal Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Carb to EFI or vice versa is now explicitly captured 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Bloody bureaucracy I tell ya. Time to drive all our old cars into the city and protest 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 @NickJ I wouldn't think those ex roll bar mounts would be an issue, maybe put some bolts in the holes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Nominal said: Carb to EFI or vice versa is now explicitly captured Man, that's a list of all the fun stuff...... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Could be worse (and will be one day), could be the list of outright banned modifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Is this something that you @cletuswill be dealing with or is it heavy vehicle engineers? Sounds like a big fuck up by nzta!.... https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/447774/nzta-manual-change-causes-headaches-for-horse-truck-and-motorhome-owners 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Heavy vehicles are a different crowd. https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/virms/hvsc/tb/modifications-to-trucks-cabs Main lesson is, don't cut up the cab nowadays. Pretty harsh to be invalidating existing builds though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cletus Posted July 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 26, 2021 1 hour ago, yoeddynz said: Is this something that you @cletuswill be dealing with or is it heavy vehicle engineers? Sounds like a big fuck up by nzta!.... https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/447774/nzta-manual-change-causes-headaches-for-horse-truck-and-motorhome-owners Apart from answering the phone a million times to explain the difference between heavy and light certification, and hear all about their camper van and how long they have had it and how many cofs it's already had and how ridiculous the rules are here in nz blah blah blah No, thankfully I dont have to deal with it 5 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Baldy Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Fuck yeah, my 1989 T3500 is in the clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 If a car has been manually deregistered about a month, is there any way to reverse the process without having to reregister the car? Still has plates, had current rego at the start of last month but is now "cancelled". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Unlikely 31 minutes ago, kws said: If a car has been manually deregistered about a month, is there any way to reverse the process without having to reregister the car? Still has plates, had current rego at the start of last month but is now "cancelled". How was the rego cancelled if they didn't hand the plates in? Probably you are out of a luck but might be worth a call to NZTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 My guess is the car was sold to a wrecker as part of an estate, and they dereg after they dropped it off (or had it picked up) claiming it was being taken off the road. You don't have to hand the plates in if you have a reason not to (like you sent the car to "scrap" with the plates still on). It looks far too tidy to just scrap it, would be a shame, but it's also a pain to have to do the rerego process. It's reason for cancel on carjam is "taken off road permanently" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 A not so quick call to NZTA confirms they have no interest in helping and it's a firm no on reversing a cancellation. I feel like there should be a grace period where it can be reversed. I guess they're of the mind that any old car off the road is a win, so why would they care? 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost_bryan Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Can you use the "reuse of plates" option? https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/number-plates/ (scroll down to "Re-issuing number plates") ... although that would be re-registering the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 32 minutes ago, kws said: It's reason for cancel on carjam is "taken off road permanently" That wording is one of the options on the dereg form isn't it? It's lame but I am not surprised at the Vogon-like bureaucracy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 14 minutes ago, kws said: A not so quick call to NZTA confirms they have no interest in helping and it's a firm no on reversing a cancellation. I feel like there should be a grace period where it can be reversed. I guess they're of the mind that any old car off the road is a win, so why would they care? That is a specific approach from the govt https://rightcar.govt.nz/scrapping-a-vehicle 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testament Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Quote Why scrap a vehicle? Vehicles reach a point where their running costs are more expensive than replacing the vehicle. Typically, this happens when a vehicle reaches 16 years of age. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 17 minutes ago, Nominal said: That is a specific approach from the govt https://rightcar.govt.nz/scrapping-a-vehicle That's crazy. I'm sure my Honda Fit is only a 1 or 2 star car, but it's a damn good car and cheap to run. But no, I should scrap it and get a new car. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 How the likes of "Rightcar" and ANCAP are allowed to exist in their current states I don't know. The whole rating system is garbage and isn't close to accurate when it comes to actual safety. Boils my piss. One example, there will be MANY. https://rightcar.govt.nz/detail?q=g52790 Zero stars. Has better occupant safety than this: I picked this van as I used to have one as a work vehicle. https://rightcar.govt.nz/detail?q=g52248 Which is 5 stars. Basically if you don't tick all their boxes, most of which do not relate to your survivability in a crash, we'll give you zero stars. Over time we'll add new boxes that old vehicles that aren't retested don't need to meet. So an old 5 star rating lasts forever and can be less safe than a zero star vehicle (which is safe) released today. What a joke. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Lol my 96 Hiace has a better safety rating than that new Mitsi van And that's with them lumping all 96 Hiaces in together as the low spec trade model and stating it hasn't got airbags or ABS (which mine does) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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